PM-KISAN: Rs 3,000 crore transferred to 42 lakh ineligible farmers
Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar informed Parliament on Tuesday that the Center has to recover Rs 2,992.75 crore by July 15 from 42.16 lakh ineligible beneficiary farmers registered for the central scheme PM-Kisan, with the highest amount to be recovered from Assam. .
Maximum Rs 554.01 crore is to be recovered from 8.35 lakh ineligible farmers of Assam, Rs 437.9 crore from Punjab, Rs 357.9 crore from Maharashtra, Rs 340.56 crore from Tamil Nadu and Rs 258.64 crore from Uttar Pradesh. The data was laid before the Lok Sabha by the Minister. According to the data, other states include Gujarat (Rs 220.7 crore), Madhya Pradesh (Rs 195.9 crore), Rajasthan (Rs 144.1 crore) and Karnataka (Rs 129.32 crore).
Astonishingly, about Rs 76,000 is to be recovered from 19 ineligible farmers in West Bengal, where the PM-Kisan scheme was implemented in May, the data showed.
Under the PM-KISAN scheme launched in 2019, a financial benefit of Rs 6,000 per year is provided to eligible farmer families, payable in three equal installments of Rs 2,000 each. Funds are directly transferred to the bank accounts of the beneficiaries.
Tomar, in a written reply to the lower house, further said that the structure of the PM-Kisan scheme is inherently a mechanism to weed out errors based on continuous verification and verification of beneficiaries’ data by various authorities like Aadhaar, Public Financial Management System. is included. (PFMS) and Income Tax Database.
“However, during the process of verification, it was found that the benefit of the scheme was transferred to some ineligible beneficiaries, including some income tax paying farmers,” he said.
The minister also said that PM-Kisan is a sustainable and sustainable scheme. As and when the correct and verified data of the registered farmers is received from the respective states on PM-Kisan portal and after its verification through Aadhar/PFMS, the benefit of the scheme will be transferred to the bank account of the intended beneficiaries through Direct Benefit Transfer. goes to DBT) mode.
Stating that the government has taken special measures to ensure that funds are not misused, Tomar said that the scheme has been properly implemented to benefit genuine farmers. He said that standard operating guidelines have been issued for recovery of money from ineligible beneficiaries.
Standard Operating Guidelines for identification of Income Tax payers have been prepared and circulated to the States. In addition, standard operating guidelines for physical verification of PM-Kisan beneficiaries have been circulated to the state governments, he said. In addition, cautionary advisories have been issued to the states to adopt measures during registration and verification of farmers under the PM-Kisan scheme.
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